Is the Times still running obits?  I recall they were trying to personalize
them - maybe put the obits on the pavers.

I agree the towers should be rebuilt as they were - I'm hankering for a good
game of stick ball.

- Pam

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Walter [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 7:17 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Thinking about monuments....


Pretty early in the morning, MetHistory wrote:

Nice, walking on the dead.  Bubble gum. Cigarette butts.  Dog doo.  Homeless
ladies urinating.  Remind me to play polo in a cemetery.

--Good point, from another early bird.  Wouldn't happen if you put these
plaques all over the city, though.

I have subsequently been thinking that not only should they be pavers, they
should be 2' x 6' pavers, with name, dates, occupation, children, etc all of
which would make them more than one of 3,000 names of dead people.  Maybe
use the same red-spattered granite they used in the Holocaust museum in DC.
3000 2x6' pavers would take up an area equivalent to a 189' square, the
better part of an acre.  People could walk on what aren't really graves, but
look like them, and I bet  the bag ladies and dogs would "go" elsewhere.

And I still think the towers should be rebuilt as they were.

Ralph

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